Who Is Mother’s Day Really For?

First of all, if you’re my mom, please stop reading.

Okay, moving on! Like a lot of people, I have a complicated relationship with Mother’s Day.As a kid, I felt like we, my sisters and I, had to make up for whatever mistake in gifting my dad would inevitably make, leaving us forever scrambling for and failing at getting her the right thing. I mean, could a macaroni necklace really ever replace a lifetime’s worth of equal household labor from my dad?